Mish Delish Good Food Blog

I’m a professional food stylist and currently prepping my own series of cookbooks and a cooking show. In my food catering business, Mishka La Mushka, I catered private and corporate functions and events big and small, designed food in hat boxes for the Spring Racing Carnival and created too many themed kids birthday parties to mention. But now I love food styling and sharing my fun food ideas with mums wanting to create restaurant-quality meals at home, for kids and family. So let’s get cooking!

I'm Mish Lilley, a kitchen cook, food stylist and chef prepping a series of cookbooks, a cooking show and this blog. This blog is dedicated to my love of good food styling and good food. It's a cooking site and recipe website designed to help mums and dads create restaurant-quality meals at home for their kids and family. My wide range of recipes cover:

These biscuits are a great lunch box treat and perfect for kids that don’t like visible dried fruit. The date puree combined with a little maple syrup naturally sweeten these delicious biscuits so with no processed sugar added, they are healthy too.

You'll Need

1/2 cup pitted dates

1.75 cups spelt flour

100g oats (blitzed in the food processor)

1/2 cup desiccated coconut

1/4 tsp baking powder

125g butter, melted

1/3 cup pure maple syrup

1 tsp vanilla extract

Method

Soak the dates in a 1/3 cup of boiling water. Allow to soak for 10 minutes or so. Puree this mix with a hand blender until smooth.

Place the flour, oats, coconut and baking powder in a large bowl and mix.

In a separate bowl, combine the butter, maple syrup, vanilla extract and date puree together and gently mix into the dry ingredients until just combined.

Cover and refrigerate the mixture for at least 15 minutes.

Pre heat your oven to 180C

Roll small bowls of dough and place on a baking sheet, lightly flatten them as you go. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden.